Cable and Wireless

There is an international telecommunications company, with customers in 80 countries, called Cable & Wireless. For 130 years it has constantly reinvented itself to embrace the latest technological advances to serve its customers' needs and today is a leading provider of IP (Internet Protocol) voice and data services to business and residential customers.

Speaking of "cable(s) and wireless", there is no end to the creativity of the technology industry. The USB (universal serial bus) cable has the primary goal of creating a more compact, instant, hassle-free way to connect a keyboard, mouse, printer, joystick, scanner, digital speakers, digital camera, PC telephone, and more to your PC. Prior to the sleek and simple USB cables we had big and bulky serial and parallel cables. If you had more than one device, then you needed a special box with multiple cable connectors and a switch know and you ended up with a mess of cables. Adding a non-USB peripheral device to a PC was a non-trivial task that required a lot of technical savvy and a certain amount of luck. First you have to figure out which port to use and then, in most cases, you have to pry open your PC to install an add-in card, set special switches, and figure out various "settings". USB makes adding peripheral devices really easy. USB replaces all the different kinds of serial and parallel port connectors with one standardized plug and port combination. With USB-compliant PCs and peripherals, you just plug them in and turn them on. What's next? (read more)

June 6, 2004 06:14 PM